Windows Mail attachments from MSOffice 2007

[Mark A]

I am having two problems with attachments and would welcome any advice as to
how to solve. These pertain to Windows Mail and MSOffice running with Vista
Home Premium SP1 64-bit.

1) When I receive an email message in Windows Mail with an Office document
attached and I double-click the attachment, the appropriate program (Word,
Excel, whatever) will open, and then I get an error message that Office
cannot find the document I am trying to open. If I go back to the email and
double-click on it a second time, it will open normally. How do I get it to
open the first time?

2) When I compose a message in Windows Mail and attempt to attach an open
MSOffice document that I have saved, Windows Mail will not send the
attachment with the message. If I close the document, it will attach and I
can send it. For example, I write a document, I save it to my documents
folder, I compose a Windows Mail message and attempt to attach the document
from the documents folder. It appears to have attached but when I hit "send"
I get an error message that says the attachment cannot be sent with the
message (and if I continue and send it, the attachment doesn't go). If I
close the document in MSOffice and attempt again to attach the saved document
from the documents folder it works fine.

Both of these issues are more in the "pain the butt" category than in the
"critical" category, but I would like to solve them if anyone can help.

Thank you.

 

[Dave]

1. Don't know. But it's better to save the attachment first, and open it
from the saved location. Especially if you're tempted to edit it.

2. Windows Mail will not send an open attachment, as you have discovered.
No workaround, other than switching to the newer Windows Live Mail.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

1. Did you recently install IE8? Some have reported similar problems after
installing IE8.

2. You don't have to make a commitment just to try out Windows Live Mail.
If it turns out you don't like it, merely uninstall. You can un Windows Mail
and Windows Live Mail simultaneously for awhile.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I am having two problems with attachments and would welcome any
advice as to how to solve. These pertain to Windows Mail and
MSOffice running with Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit.

1) When I receive an email message in Windows Mail with an Office
document attached and I double-click the attachment, the appropriate
program (Word, Excel, whatever) will open, and then I get an error
message that Office cannot find the document I am trying to open. If
I go back to the email and double-click on it a second time, it will
open normally. How do I get it to open the first time?

As to the problem with opening attachments:
Do you have IE8 installed?

Rainald